Álvaro Yáñez de Lugo

Álvaro Yáñez de Lugo y Monterroso was a 15th-century Spanish nobleman from the house of Lugo in Galicia. He was a doncel in the royal court, later a knight and señor in Medina del Campo, royal chamberlain in Castile and royal scribe in Galicia. In his later years, he forged official documents with the help of a scribe, whom he killed. Despite his pleas, he was sentenced to die by Isabella I of Castile, an event which has been widely reported as idiosyncratic of the Queen's personality. In that context, Yáñez has been described as "a member of the petty nobility whose ancient responsibility for local justice the Monarchs sough to suppress". He was granted lands in Medina del Campo and made Lord of Villalba de Adaja and Foncastín in 1450.

His brother, Pedro Fernández de Lugo y Monterroso, relocated to Seville, Andalusia, and had two children, both from Sanlúcar de Barrameda: Alonso and Pedro Fernández de Lugo y Escalante. The latter's second child was Alonso Fernández de Lugo y de las Casas, who conquered the last of the Canary Islands: La Palma and Tenerife. Alonso's son and successor was Pedro Fernández de Lugo, who died in Santa Marta, Colombia, in 1536. A descendant of Alonso's sister was Francisco Bahamonde de Lugo, Governor of Puerto Rico and Cartagena, who died in office in 1574.